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Gastroscopy
Updated: Nov 09, 2009 - 17:21Gastroscopy is when your doctor looks inside your stomach using a camera and a light on the end of a thin tube (about as wide as your little finger). This is called a gastroscope or an endoscope. ‘Gastro’ means stomach and ‘scopy’ means seeing, so gastroscopy just means ‘seeing the stomach’.
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General anaesthetic
Updated: Dec 21, 2009 - 14:55A general anaesthetic is a special mixture of drugs that you are given to make sure you won't feel anything when you have an operation. ‘Anaes’ means without and ‘thesia’ means feeling, so an anaesthetic stops you from feeling EVERYTHING, not just pain. The ‘general’ part just means that you will...
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Grommet removal
Updated: Jan 12, 2010 - 12:21A grommet removal is when a doctor takes out tiny plastic tubes called grommets from your eardrums. Grommets are put into your eardrums to cure glue ear in a procedure called myringotomy.
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Hearing test
Updated: Nov 09, 2009 - 15:12A hearing test is when your doctor checks how well you can hear things. A hearing test will usually check what volumes and tones you can hear.
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Home oximetry test
Updated: Nov 13, 2009 - 16:58A home oximetry test is when you get an oximeter that you can take home to do your own oximetry test. An oximeter is a tiny, glowing clip that measures how much oxygen you have in your blood. You may need to wear it on your fingertip while you are asleep so your doctor can see if you are getting ...
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Immunisation
Updated: Oct 23, 2009 - 09:42Immunisation (also called vaccination) is protection against certain diseases. The vaccines are given to you as injections by your doctor. Immunisation improves your immune system so that it can recognise these diseases immediately, before they can attack your body and make you ill. Sometimes, yo...
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Jejunostomy
Updated: Jan 11, 2010 - 16:18A jejunostomy is when a doctor puts a tube feeding into a part of your small intestine called the jejunum. The word ‘-stomy’ means to make an opening, so jejunostomy means to make an opening in your jejunum. Jejunostomy tubes are also known as percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy tubes – you may h...
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Keyhole surgery
Updated: Oct 23, 2009 - 09:25Keyhole surgery, also called laparoscopic surgery is done through tiny holes – keyholes! It is done using a camera and monitor and tiny instruments. Just like before having normal surgery, you have a general anaesthetic, so you are asleep during the operation and don’t feel a thing. You will s...
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Kidney function test
Updated: Feb 03, 2010 - 14:43A kidney function test is a blood test to see how well your kidneys are working. The test checks to make sure your kidneys are filtering out any rubbish from your blood and getting rid of it in your wee. If you have lots of waste in your blood it could mean that your kidneys aren’t working the ...
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Laparoscopy
Updated: Nov 13, 2009 - 15:17A laparoscopy is when a doctor looks inside your abdomen using a bendy thin tube with a camera or microscope on the end – a laparoscope. The term ‘laparo’ means abdomen and ‘-scopy’ means to see, so laparoscopy means to see inside your abdomen Abdomen .
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